John Dryden Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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I love all things Christmas.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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I'll show you some security and I'll show you some peace: Nagasaki and Hiroshima. You fuck with us and we'll fucking melt you.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
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These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
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I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought,And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
